I saw a toot from someone who was searching for Iocaine and only wanted to partake in discussion involving Iocaine.
In that context, I was referring to this iocaine.
Ah I was wondering if you’d find this thread. Looking into it now its no doubt a cool project when searching previously I kept running into articles about princess bride.
Unfortunately I have nothing to host on the internet but I wonder it could be paired with something that traps the clanker in the maze with a proof of work in between each page. That way they are ingesting poison and working for it. I get a lot of joy from the idea of a swarm of bots stuck in an infinite maze.
Thank you for creating Iocaine.
Ah I was wondering if you’d find this thread
I did! It was lucky I found it so soon, I usually do a search once or twice a week - and it just happened I did one of those yesterday.
previously I kept running into articles about princess bride
That’s normal, iocaine’s name is from the Princess Bride, after all - and the book and the film are much better known than my software (as they should be).
Unfortunately I have nothing to host on the internet but I wonder it could be paired with something that traps the clanker in the maze with a proof of work in between each page. That way they are ingesting poison and working for it. I get a lot of joy from the idea of a swarm of bots stuck in an infinite maze.
The ingested poison doesn’t do much, it’ll get discarded before training. So if you have nothing to put behind iocaine, I don’t think it’s worth it to run it. It can generate endless amounts of garbage, yeah, and will tie up some crawler resources too, yup, but it also costs you bandwidth and CPU & RAM you otherwise wouldn’t need to spend (since there’s nothing behind it, there’s no “more expensive” endpoint iocaine is taking a hit for). I don’t think that’s a good trade. As for Proof of Work: most bots won’t bother, and for the few that do… the cost/benefit ratio is still bad if there’s nothing behind iocaine.
It’s software for trapping AI scrapers. They get served paragraphs of gibberish created from public domain works which keeps them occupied and potentially poisons them. It’s very cheap for the backend to run.
A fictional poison from The Princess Bride, and possibly some small tech projects inspired by the same.
MAN IN BLACK: What you do not smell is called iocaine powder. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man.
Inconceivable.
They should have used that against the damn Yedi in Ep1 instead of the obvious smelly white gas.
What the fuck is a toot in this context
Tweets are to Twitter as Toots are to mastadon
On Bluesky they’re called skeets. People who call it X sometimes say Xeets.
Mastodon posts!
I believe a toot is what you call a small line of snortable drug powder.
Toot toot
misspelled cocaine?
low key cocaine? idk
Yeah I was like “isn’t that the stuff they get from the drug store to turn into cocaine in A Scanner Darkly?”
But no I think they called that “solarcaine” if I recall correctly
